Beautiful and powerful as always. But what are we to do when we recognize we are in the house of Pharoah and are all complicit? Is there a part 3 here? Perhaps a tafsir of what the wife of Pharoah offers us as a model of what it means to maintain integrity and righteousness even when we are intimately part of and complicit within an oppressive system we cannot dismantle?
Fair questions. This is the opening to a chapter where I try to unpack evil from the ground of Islam - the larger hose of Pharaoh in which we abide. And yes, writing more about what one does when in it. I hadn't thought about the wife of Pharaoh specifically, but now I'm thinking about working with her prayer. In fact, I can see how I can use her words there to link with what I'm writing about home and land and righteousness.
Beautiful and powerful as always. But what are we to do when we recognize we are in the house of Pharoah and are all complicit? Is there a part 3 here? Perhaps a tafsir of what the wife of Pharoah offers us as a model of what it means to maintain integrity and righteousness even when we are intimately part of and complicit within an oppressive system we cannot dismantle?
Fair questions. This is the opening to a chapter where I try to unpack evil from the ground of Islam - the larger hose of Pharaoh in which we abide. And yes, writing more about what one does when in it. I hadn't thought about the wife of Pharaoh specifically, but now I'm thinking about working with her prayer. In fact, I can see how I can use her words there to link with what I'm writing about home and land and righteousness.
I am going to link to your post in the one I'm writing, which discusses the attitude that makes this and other tragedies possible.
Thanks for posting this, Martin.